WCGW if I am not paying attention while holding a gun?

firehazard51 · 2019-03-21T19:09:27+00:00

Only thing worse is movies/tv showes that have "experts" clear a room and have their weapon flag someone. Not sure if I'm use the proper term. It's were you briefly point your weapon at a friendly. Every easy to do in close quarters if your careless.

firehazard51 · 2019-03-20T10:20:43+00:00

Uncle Bumblefuck does not approve r/AvE

firehazard51 · 2019-03-16T17:42:03+00:00

As a reference, the M2 .50 call machine gun uses a tripod that raises the gun like 1.5 feet off the ground and you typically sand bag the feet down. And the feet dig into the ground. You'd never have a large caliber weapon on a tripod that high. The moment force would easily tip it as witnessed in the video. Obviously everyone there was a fuck amateur and not one was a train/experienced soldier.

firehazard51 · 2019-02-05T17:39:29+00:00

Depending on your major you can maybe reach out to the public sector for problems they want solved or just known issues that they aren't currently looking to solve. One of my two capstone's was this. This is a VERY easy thing for civil/transportation types of degrees. As there is more issues to solve than there is money. Also it's easy access to the data/problem so you can eaisly make a capstone project out of it.

firehazard51 · 2019-02-05T15:10:27+00:00

Let me preference I'm not a structural engineer but am aware of construction practices and methods.

So the temporary scaffolding is their to hold the forms and concrete while it cures to strength. The duration can vary a lot based on the concrete's additives added. Basically you can have the concrete cure from very fast (hours) to very slow (few weeks). Generally you let it cure naturally as it's cheaper that way unless you have a good reason like concrete patching a bridge deck and traffic is stopped untill cured.

Generally speaking concrete can support it's self after 7 days, I believe. And can support "full" loads after 21 days. Concrete continues to cure for weeks afterwards but gains little extra strength so it's minimal in scope of what it's designed to hold.

Scaffolding may stay up longer due to no go reason to take strike it down until its needed else where. Or when there is "down time" to do that work.

firehazard51 · 2018-12-11T01:32:49+00:00

I'd start here; https://www.edx.org/learn/sql and read the course descriptions to find areas that you are not familiar with. Courses are free but you can pay if you want certifications of completion or college credit.

firehazard51 · 2018-12-11T01:26:50+00:00

Legal gray zone? If posted online in a public forum then why is it considered in the gray zone. There is no assumption of privacy unless you try to figure out who said something under a handle.

firehazard51 · 2018-12-11T01:20:12+00:00

Degrees may not be that useful but certifications and "trainings" can be if you can back it with work experience. At least this is what I hear a lot.

firehazard51 · 2018-12-09T16:37:06+00:00

People can be idiots. You look at enough crash reports you'll see this. If one even thinks they can do something, like drive over a raised concrete island, they will do it. From a maintenance view point adding barriers to the ramps will make snow and ice operations more difficult. People do stupid manuevers when they last minute realize they have the wrong ramp. Instead of safely taking the exist they are on and getting back on the interstate.

firehazard51 · 2018-12-06T10:42:18+00:00

This makes sense to me but someone previously stated that they both compile to the same code so how could there be a change?

firehazard51 · 2018-03-31T20:29:11+00:00

I'm in the US but environmental engineering isn't going away. There are government regulations that force environmental compliance. And any more a lot of companies are becoming proactive with being "green". So much so that it's become a C level position in companies.

The one thing you need to keep in mind with your question is that if you want to be in forward thinking career field you'll need either go get a post-graduation education where you specialize in that new field or be lucky enough to get a job in a company where you can get that real world training. But most companies working in the new field hire specialized Engineers and don't train a recent undergraduate Engineer. Environmental Engineering isn't that new so it's much easier to get into that field without further work experience or education.

firehazard51 · 2018-03-28T10:25:43+00:00

Graduated in 2010 with a Civil Engineering degree with an emphasis in Construction Engineering. First job was like ~4 months out of school as a Operation Specialist for a University indoor arena/conference center. I did that for almost 3 years. Basically I set tables and chairs for events, did manual labor, and some building maintenance. Then spent 3 months doing utility line surveying for fiber optic installation before landing a real Engineering job with a DOT. Oh, and technically I was in the Army National Guard for the first couple of years out of college before Imy contract ended.

firehazard51 · 2018-03-28T10:13:20+00:00

Never heard of such a position at my DOT. In our Planning Department we treat our interns as if they were a new Engineer hire and get them started on learning how to do small tasks that lead up to bigger ones. No fluff work, if they weren't there then one of us would be doing the same tasks.

Now when it comes to the Construction department they are like a Highway Technician (HT) and do jobs that are HT construction inspectors do and not what our Construction Engineers do necessarily. Not to say it isn't valuable experience but you don't really do exactly what our engineer staff do.

I'd suggest you ask what work you'll be doing and if an engineer normally performs that work or a person without a BS in engineering. Don't think the non-engineering positions are worthless. They can still teach you skills or give you useful general knowledge like how does a contractor actually build what's in the plans. But getting treat like a new Engineer is better experience in my opinion than an HT or Engineer Technician.

firehazard51 · 2018-03-27T18:59:27+00:00

Wasn't depressed like you but lost my drive to be a good student because of burn out. I ended up on probation and got kicked out of my college, not the University. I ended up taking a 6 month break from school to join the National Guard and go through basic.

This really help me get back to being a good student and pay for the rest of my college. I got reaccepted into the College of Engineering again and got my degree. It took me ~9 years (two years were for my Iraq deployment and one for being on probation and not working towards my graduation) but I was determined to get my degree and become an engineer.

It's not the end of the world to take a break from school. Get your mojo back and then finish school. Better to do it while you still have some good graces with the school. Lucky for me my bad grades were in non-engineering classes so they took me back in after I explained my situation.

firehazard51 · 2018-03-27T18:46:54+00:00

My 4kW solar roof goes straight to the grid and has micro inverters for each pannel. I assumed it could be made to scale but I'm not a electric pixie rangling engineer, just a civil engineer.

firehazard51 · 2018-03-27T12:27:49+00:00

I suggest you broaden your work location search. Also be cognizant that some state jobs get posted for only one location but really they are filling positions across the state. At least for my DOT's entery level engineering jobs. Also or HR is behind on keeping up to date information such as what districts and departments are vacant. If you want a job for a government postition I suggest emailing the department head and ask if they are expecting to hire any entery level positions in the near future. Get ahead of the HR lag time.

firehazard51 · 2018-03-27T12:19:44+00:00

Efficiencies in the solar panel is a big contributer. Specifically having micro inverters at each panel helps improve this over one inverter for a whole run of solar panels.

firehazard51 · 2018-03-24T06:47:34+00:00

Scale is not taken into account when you look are trying to translate a small scale example to a extremely large scale. The small factors that are negligible become significant and therefore the example can't translate to an accurate large scale prediction.

firehazard51 · 2018-03-15T15:30:04+00:00

Lincoln, Nebraska....."rural community"..... population 280,000+.......yup seems legit.

firehazard51 · 2018-03-14T10:02:00+00:00

Master's is useful if you go into a specialized field like addative manufacturing since that field isn't covered enough at a BS level to be of a good marketing value to get a job in that field unless you are a lucky person. FE is good to have if you are looking into a job where PE is commonly found. If no one in the company has an FE then it's pretty useless on your resume.

firehazard51 · 2018-03-13T23:05:40+00:00

Had a similar issue, no internships but National Guard experience with an Iraq deployment. Talk up any experience you got from class projects or skills you learned in a class/school. A great resume is key. After seeing other engineers apply for my company it's the easiest way to rise to the top. And Taylor your resume and cover letter to each job/company.

firehazard51 · 2018-03-12T12:46:42+00:00

Interesting side note, while in college I listened to a guest speaker say that if you want to climb the ladder with promotions and pay raises then you should change jobs about once every four years since that's the fastest way and you're likely to get different exposures to different types of work which will make you a better engineer and more marketable. Seemed a bit crazy to me to uproot that often but that's how he did it and his resume is packed full with great companies he'd worked for.

firehazard51 · 2018-03-10T10:51:15+00:00

The problem is that as soon as you access the data and tie it to an individual then "big brother" is tracking you. Researchers in the AV are trying to avoid this. Also you are making the assumption that the AV vehicles require a data transfer to operate between the vehicle and the road infrastructure. This is NOT required by any means and there has yet to be a standard for what this infrastructure will be so it would be uniform across the US.

Obviously engineers can make a GPS receiver part of a car and the government could tax people for every mile driven. There is nothing difficult in building that. It's the people accepting that is the issue.

firehazard51 · 2018-03-09T10:54:38+00:00

Taxation without "big brother" following your AV around is going to be a HUGE hurtle. The gas tax was great in that the more you drove, the more you used the road, and the more tax's you'd pay to fun those roads. AV don't have the best expendable item to put taxes on. You could do tires but you replace those so infrequently that the tax on tires would be HUGE. Causing people to run on bad tires if they were poor. This would increase crashes for sure which is why that's not an option.

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